The Moon Rising over the Sea

Sijun's father was transferred to Xinjiang to work when Sijun was ten years old. Father and son have been living apart from each other for 20 years. Sijun goes to Xinjiang every year to select jade. His father is about to retire this year. He hopes to complete a jade-hunting trip with his son, not only to understand his son's career, but also to say goodbye to Xinjiang for himself... This is a rare time for father and son to get together in the past 20 years. They drove west along the ancient "Jade Road", starting from Korla, passing through Ruoqiang, Qiemo, and Hotan, going deep into the Gobi, setting foot in the Altyn Mountains, and walking on the bed of the Jade Dragon Kashgar River. They meet all kinds of people along the way - there are simple jade-picking farmers, there are smooth jade merchants, there are big "stone gamblers" who have given up their official positions, and there are also the "rich second generation" who have gone through ups and downs. Everyone is trapped in the jade circle. Faced with the rapid rise in market prices and the increasingly depleting natural resources, their joys, sorrows, and joys are born with the stone, but they are looking for somewhere else to rest in the foreseeable future. They have experienced turbulent waves, and today they don’t know where to go. Hundreds of millions of years ago, moonlight-like jade rose from the sea, spreading thousands of famous stories to the world. Thousands of years ago, the ancients searched for jade under the moonlight. Now, all that is left are the sandy Gobi desert, the quiet mountains and the devastated riverbed.